CAROL, you said >shingles can be cured by taking large doses >of the amino acid L-lysine. >Start by taking one 1,000 mg tablet every hour. If that does >not alleviate the symptoms up the dosage or time interval. It can't do any harm. Do you know this for a fact? That seems to me to be an extraordinarily high dose of L-lysine for anyone to be taking... Do you know if the L-lysine would interact in any way with antiparkinson's medication? I think a bit of research would be useful here. Does anyone know the answers to these questions... Kathrynne Holden perhaps? I do have a friend with PD who has had shingles recently, so i would very much like to know how and if the regular medication for shingles affects the PD medicaition. Thanks Joy Graham